Graham Nash was joined by a handful of old friends Wednesday night when he moderated All You Need Is the Summer of Love at the Paley Center in New York City.
Joining him on the panel were Michelle Phillips, documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, Kenny Loggins and music journalist Allen Kozinn.
They discussed the summer of 1967 -- when Nash was still in The Hollies and Michelle performed at Monterey Pop with The Mamas and Papas, which Pennebaker filmed while Loggins sat in the audience. Film clips of that festival were also shown, as was the Our World satellite broadcast, which had The Beatles performing "All You Need Is Love."
Nash, who was in the studio with The Fab Four, discussed with Kozinn, a Beatles expert, how that event came to be. He remembers wondering at the time how John Lennon could chew gum as he sang.
Also discussed was the first time Nash and Phillips heard Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. Loggins chimed in, "Sgt. Pepper and marijuana happened at the same time.”
Summing up that year, Nash said, “You didn’t know how incredible it all was until you look back, how lucky we were.”